Include Meta Information on the response json

[ngcammayo]

Hi my I suggest if you can add the meta information from the response. The purpose was to use this on javascript tables such as jquery DataTable as a source. If you can make another method to have a parameter or a flag that indicate if the meta information be included in the response.

Again thanks for this wonderful API handler.

[ngcammayo]

Sample format would be like this:

[
{
"meta_total_count": 10,
"meta_filter_count": 0,
"meta_response":
{
"id": "1",
"code": "est",
"name": "Est et.",
"status": "0",
"created_by": "minus",
"updated_by": null,
"created_at": "2014-04-19 02:03:37",
"updated_at": "2014-04-19 02:03:37",
"deleted_at": null
}
}
]

[marcelgwerder]

I thought a lot about this and I decided to first support the meta information in the http headers. However I may indeed add this optional feature in the future. There are multiple ways to do this.
I could support an additional parameter in getResponse() or an option in the package config which allows the developer to decide what he wants. Or use a flag like _config=envelope where the client can decide In which form he wants the data.

This of course isn't implemented right now. With the tools available right now you can still manually implement an envelope. This is however not that clean but it works:

$result = ApiHandler::parseMultiple($foo, array('foo', 'bar'));
$builder = $result->getBuilder();
$metaProviders = $result->getMetaProviders();
$response = array();

foreach($metaProviders as $provider) {
    if($provider->getTitle() == 'Meta-Total-Count') $response['meta_total_count'] = $provider->get();    
    else if($provider->getTitle() == 'Meta-Filter-Count') $response['meta_filter_count'] = $provider->get();
}

$response['data'] = $builder->get();

return $response; 

[ngcammayo]

Thanks, it just shows the flexibility that you have implemented this handler in a way to make it open for modification.

Once again thank you for considering my request.

[marcelgwerder]

Lets keep this issue open. I'll close it when there is a more sophisticated solution.